Nintendo and Sony are teaming as much as make a live-action Legend of Zelda film, and actor Haley Joel Osment needs to be in it. In a brand new interview, Osment mentioned he is been a fan of the sequence since he was a child and is keen to place his hat within the ring to play Hyperlink. He joked that perhaps he is now too previous, at 37, to play Hyperlink, however you by no means know.
“Oh, my hat’s within the ring, they know my hat’s been within the ring,” he advised IGN. “Hyperlink was like 37 when he did all this, proper!? Seventeen, 37? As a child, I used to be like, ‘Clearly they’re gonna make [Ocarina of Time] a film quickly, the story’s all written out for you!’ And you are like, ‘That’d be very difficult to make right into a compelling two-hour film.'”
Particularly, Osment mentioned he needs to see Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Masks’s lore be labored into the Zelda film. He mentioned, “These are my unique Star Wars [trilogy].”
The Zelda film is within the works with Planet of the Apes and Maze Runner director Wes Ball connected. Spider-Man producer Avi Arad is producing the film, which is a joint manufacturing between Nintendo and Sony Footage–Nintendo is funding “greater than 50%” of the movie.
Casting bulletins haven’t been made as of but, however Euphoria’s Hunter Schafer needs to play Zelda following a fan marketing campaign.
Ball, the director, beforehand teased his imaginative and prescient for the Zelda film. “I’ve this superior thought,” he mentioned. “I have been desirous about it for an extended freakin’ time, of how cool a Zelda film can be… I need to fulfill individuals’s best needs. I do know it is vital, this [Zelda] franchise, to individuals and I would like it to be a critical film. An actual film that may give individuals an escape.”
Along with the live-action Zelda film, Nintendo is producing The Tremendous Mario Bros. Film 2, and only recently, Toad voice actor Keegan-Michael Key made an thrilling announcement about it.